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Am I Not Enough? Trusting God, Not My Own Strength
Waiting, the hardest activity we undertake during our short time on earth, pokes holes in our otherwise ‘strong faith,’ testing our trust.
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4 Tips for Passive Decision-Makers
Decision-making is one of the scariest, paralysis inducing undertakings of a people-pleaser. It’s risky to state my own opinion, and it leaves me vulnerable to feeling the judgement, anger, or disappointment of others. If my goal is only to keep people around me happy, decision-making is the ripple in the water that rocks the boat.
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Unraveling the Internal Discord of Perfectionism and People-Pleasing
Perfectionists and People-Pleasers are naturally at odds within themselves. They experience something called cognitive dissonance, which is the phenomenon where a person holds two conflicting beliefs or ideas and feel an internal discord.
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Follow Where He Leads: Letting God turn our pain into trust
Have you ever run into someone at a store or walking your dog on the running track through your city and left the conversation in awe that God led you to each other in that moment? Well, I had a similar feeling a couple of weeks ago. Leaving our son’s room after putting him down to sleep, I tiptoed down…
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Using Our Prayer Fatigue to Grow Our Faith in God
A few years ago I graduated with my master’s degree, ready to begin my life in the 9 to 5 sector. I was eager to get started and excited by the endless opportunity I saw ahead of me. This is what the last 24 years of education prepared me for, after all. I was excited but not naïve. Many other…
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Dreams and Arrows: How dreams point us back to God
The bedroom is dark, letting light from the only streetlight and the moon mix as they filter through the oddly shaped window along the end of our house. I wake with a start, not from any sound I heard in my sleep, but from what I was dreaming about. As I flip to my other side, I feel where sweat…
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The Enneagram: Why we keep coming back to personality quizzes
What is it about these tools that draws so many people into the Enneagram? Why do we continually come back to the table wanting to know more?